How long before colleges start backtracking on their reopening plans?
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Anonymous
| If any schools who have previously announced plans to reopen their campuses in the fall (even if classes end up 100% online) have changed their minds in the meantime, please post here. I expect that they will wait at least a couple more weeks, though, to see if the current spikes settle down. |
Anonymous
| They already have. This is all over the forum already. No need to have another thread. |
Anonymous
Links? Or names of schools? I am not seeing anything “all over” the thread, or in the news. The question is specifically about colleges that released a reopening plan, but have since changed their minds. |
Anonymous
| The plans the schools have developed have had contingencies based on local conditions. They didn’t backtrack, these are all part of the plans from the very beginning. Every school has a Covid19 website, go visit them and learn for yourself. |
Anonymous
| If one is planning on attending schools in Florida, Texas or Arizona, I would assume distance learning, given we are a month out from first day of classes. |
Anonymous
| Pomona is one of the only colleges I know of that has unequivocally decided not to house any students in the fall, but that wasn’t backtracking, just the original plan. |
Anonymous
| USC |
Anonymous
| Sounds like Southern California is leading the retreat. Wonder how many more will give up, especially now that ICE has backed down on their threat. |
Anonymous
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Dickinson is backtracking.
https://www.dickinson.edu/info/20043/about/4030/dickinson_college_updates_on_fall_2020/5 |
Anonymous
| What will be the point except money to get the student on campus? It sounds like they can go to campus and stay in their room and take Zoom classes. No indication of any non virtual connections with other students. Libraries, dining halls, and gyms closed. They will make them sign liability forms and threaten to throw them out if they interact with anyone. It is depressing. |
Anonymous
| The day after there are no refunds given. |
Anonymous
Lack of rapid testing is a key issue. |
Anonymous
| Kenyon has gone all online. Interestingly Miami of Ohio is full on going for it...welcoming everyone back and just asking people to wear masks |
Anonymous
Keyons website, updated yesterday, says 1/2 on campus in fall, half in spring. Oberlin release the most thorough plan humanly possible today. Trimesters, with sophomores and juniors doing fall or spring, plus summer. All singles. No sports. No parties (hosts will be asked to leave the College) A small number of remote classes, the rest hybrid or 100% in person. My kid is trying to absorb it in small doses. If they can’t make it work, it isn’t for lack of having planned everything. But they got tests and a lab under contract early. https://www.oberlin.edu/obiesafe/housing I am going to love to see my kid follow the disinfecting guidelines for the sink before and after each use 
Then, there this “if you are hosting an i time to partner in your room, please follow all consent guidelines for COVID 19 amd follow self-isolation guidelines”. That’s a lot of trouble— even if you get sex out of it. It sounds thorough, and possible. But honestly, not that fun. My kid says— maybe, but it’s more Fun than never leaving home. 
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Anonymous
“Hosting an intimate partner” m SMDH |